We are deal hunters. Spend less, travel more … right?!Bookvip Flash Sale… If you like to make your getaway travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may find yourself thinking about a trip bundle advertising offer. You need to be prepared. Know that these promotional trip package companies are not equivalent.
After the pulled down of our current remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I simply left the phone from trying to book the rest of our getaway package with them (some time in Florida). Let’s just state that will not be happening. We are simply going to forget and consume the cost about it.
From here on out, we will be reserving trip plans through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Certainly, you have actually seen the Facebook sponsored posts. You will see that it is complete of the cheapest holiday bundles to some of the most popular locations if you click over to their website. They have some seriously glamorous looking stays all over the world at some crazy great costs.
Our very first all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was amazing. Perhaps the Dreams ruined us. This place was off-hook. It was whatever we had expected and then some.
One quick note … We have only used BookVIP one time, at one luxury resort in Cancun. Logic tells me that not every resort trip plan is going to provide a comparable experience. It really is all going to boil down to the research study you put in.
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Looking into the residential or commercial properties used on BookVIP can be a little a difficulty. They do not advertise the real name of the resorts. Rather, they utilize fake names. If you truly want to sleuth out the location you will be remaining a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the images will expose the real identity of the property you are considering. We didn’t bother going that far. There was lots of info on the BookVIP site to help us feel comfy with making our appointment.
What we like about scheduling with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. When you have done your research study and you are prepared, schedule. You will know what you are getting. If the dates you desire to take a trip are offered, you know ahead of time. There is time to compare the amenities and restaurants. This is a huge contrast to the marketing vacation package sales calls I will speak about in the next section.
When you are ready to make your appointment with BookVIP, just be prepared for a couple of additional resort fees and taxes. Our $599 for 5 days/4 nights at a Cancun all inclusive expense around $720 after everything was said and done. In our case, part of the surcharge was to cover tips for the resort personnel. After the experience we had, we found this to be well worth it.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Flash Sale
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the very best. We very likely would not have actually taken part in another marketing deal if this had been our very first experience. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our very first marketing resort stay, we started getting phone calls using holiday packages to various locations. That is how we wound up with a getaway plan including our most recent Cancun all inclusive plus a couple short remain in Florida and somewhere else.
These travel sales calls are always a high-pressure scenario unless you just hang up. Say no adequate times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it actually sounds like an excellent deal. There isn’t much time to look into the vacation properties they are providing.
They drew us in with a remain in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the proximity to Belize) and some time in Florida (hey there, sailboat shopping!). So we shot and bought a plan. Utilizing it, that is an entire various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to in fact utilize the trip time. There is a lot of small print that makes travel preparation really difficult and possibly a lot more pricey. They do not reveal these details during the sales call.
IF YOU PURCHASE A TRIP PACKAGE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR …
You can just schedule your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, fair enough.
When you call to ask for your favored dates, they require you to fill out a long type requiring all the info that they already have. You then have to wait about a week to see if your dates are even offered. Unless your travel plans will only include your remain at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel very inconvenient.
Planning affordable flights, or offered Airbnb remains in conjunction with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation bundle is extremely tough. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to remain at after our stay at the resort was reserved by the time Premier Travel Resorts got back to us.
Our bundle included a stay in Orlando and a stay in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts requires that those stays be back to back or thirty days apart. So, in our case, utilizing them on either end of a business journey we had actually planned was not permitted.
We utilized the Cancun portion of our getaway bundle, however we will not be using the rest of it.
THE BAIT AND SWITCH CANCUN ‘ALL INCLUSIVE’ THROUGH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS
You see, they put us up, not in one of the high-end homes that they desired to offer us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the good property informed us they called it.
Now, to be fair, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one restaurant that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you overlook the air conditioning system leaking into our food) was really a great experience. They altered the menu every night, including foods from different parts of Mexico. And the staff was amazing. Extremely friendly and accommodating. And very ready to assist us with our Spanish.
As soon as over the shock of the distinction in the kind of place we believed we would be staying, we made the most of it. And picked up our rental car a couple days early to go off and explore the area.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts need that you participate in a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their reduced costs. No biggie. We feel like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, requires that you participate in a marketing discussion during each stay. When they sold us the bundle, this is different from what we were informed. When you are remaining somewhere for only 2 nights is a substantial chunk of time, a two-hour sales pitch. They offered us four various stays, that implies up to 8 hours of reasonably high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT